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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > Meditation
More and more we rely on digital connection to fulfil our needs. Skype and FaceTime have taken place of meetings; digital devices are used to entertain children instead of playing with them; non-urgent emails and texts are read and responded to whilst in the company of others, lessening personal connections.
Through 100 simple tips, including self-help assessments, step-by-step programmes and rebalancing techniques, this essential guide shows you how technology can still play a useful and rewarding role in your life, but not at the expense of personal relationships and mental health.
This spiral-bound version of Yoga Anatomy, Third Edition, lays flat
to make it easy for instructors and practitioners to reference
during their yoga class or in-home practice. With more than a
million copies sold, Yoga Anatomy has become an invaluable resource
for yoga practitioners, enthusiasts, and instructors around the
world. Expanded and updated, the third edition of Yoga Anatomy will
provide you with an even deeper understanding of yoga and of the
structures and principles underlying each movement. Building on the
success of its predecessors, this revamped edition features new
content to further augment your yoga practice: A new chapter
offering history and context for the idea that anatomy is a story
Updated chapters on the skeletal and muscular systems A new chapter
on the nervous system that outlines its key functions and roles in
the body Significantly expanded breathing and spine chapters to
address disc anatomy and damage as well as back pain Newly added
Cueing Callouts to provide tips and advice on teaching or
performing a pose New stick figure icons to simply depict the
alignment of each pose for quick reference A Breathing Inquiry
section with each asana to illuminate the connection between
breathing and a movement practice This beautifully illustrated
resource sorts yoga poses into six sections-standing, sitting,
kneeling, supine, prone, and arm supports-and provides an inside
look into each pose to offer a better understanding of the
interactions of the muscles, joints, and nervous system that we use
to create movement and breathing. Authors Leslie Kaminoff and Amy
Matthews, both internationally respected specialists in yoga and
breath anatomy, offer a solid grounding in the principles of
physical practice common to many systems of yoga. Whether you are
just beginning your journey or have been practicing for years, Yoga
Anatomy will be an invaluable resource-one that allows you to see
each movement in an entirely new light.
A New York Times best seller—now revised and updated with new exercises and guided meditations.
“An inviting gateway to the interior territory of profound well-being and wisdom.”—Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are
From Sharon Salzberg, a pioneer in the field of meditation and world-renowned teacher acclaimed for her down-to-earth style, Real Happiness is a complete guide to starting and maintaining a meditation practice. Beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques, and based on three key skills—concentration, mindfulness, and lovingkindness—it’s a practice anyone can do and that can transform our lives by bringing us greater resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance.
This updated 10th anniversary edition includes exercises, journal prompts, and ten guided meditations available for download online and through scannable QR codes.
The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of
shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote
health and happiness Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your
hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we
suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that
spending mindful, intentional time around trees--what the Japanese
call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing--can promote health and
happiness. In this beautiful book--featuring more than 100 color
photographs from forests around the world, including the forest
therapy trails that criss-cross Japan--Dr. Qing Li, the world's
foremost expert in forest medicine, shows how forest bathing can
reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your
immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood,
creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and
live longer. Once you've discovered the healing power of trees, you
can lose yourself in the beauty of your surroundings, leave
everyday stress behind, and reach a place of greater calm and
wellness.
Combining knowledge from mindfulness and neurobiology with
practical clinical experience, this book offers mindfulness
exercises that everyone enjoys, no matter how difficult it is for
them to focus. Mindfulness meditation allows people to enter a
world where they experience greater competency over their thoughts,
emotions, health, pain, and even relationships. These activities
will help people discover these important benefit, and take up the
practice at home. After an introduction to the neurobiology behind
mindfulness, each chapter contains activities with complete
transcripts for clinicians to use in individual and group therapy.
Unique to this book is the inclusion of transcripts for both adults
and children. Regardless of your experience level and clientele,
each therapist will find useful and engaging activities to easily
incorporate into their practice.
From the author of Tiny Buddha's 365 Tiny Love Challenges and
founder of the popular online community Tiny Buddha comes a
flexibound interactive journal to help readers creatively foster
gratitude in their daily lives. Even in the hardest of times, we
have things to be grateful for. Lori Deschene, founder of
TinyBuddha.com, helps us recognize these small blessings with this
journal dedicated to thankfulness. Each page of Tiny Buddha's
Gratitude Journal includes a question or prompt to help readers
reflect on everything that's worth appreciating in their lives.
Sprinkled throughout this soulful journal are fifteen coloring
pages depicting ordinary, often overlooked objects that enhance our
lives, with space for written reflection on the page. With Tiny
Buddha's Gratitude Journal, readers will be able to recognize small
blessings, focus on the positive, and foster optimism to help them
be their best, happiest selves every day.
Life is full of demands at home and at work, which can lead to a
rise in stress and burnout. And with burnout being recognized as a
diagnosable condition by the World Health Organization, it's more
important than ever to restore your purpose, energy, and
enthusiasm! Fuel Your Fire can help you go from frazzled and fed up
to relaxed, refreshed, and restored. With more than 200 different
ways to truly and deeply relax and relieve tension, including
breathing exercises, yoga poses, soothing activities, meditations,
fun ways to connect with others, and more, you'll be able to unplug
and disconnect from all the areas of your life that bring you
anxiety. These quick, practical activities are easy and enjoyable
and can quickly help restore balance and prevent burnout. Feel more
in control and empowered by taking a break from the stresses that
are making you anxious. Fuel Your Fire has just what you need to
reclaim your joy, confidence, and vitality.
Sacred Geometry exists all around us in the natural world, from the
unfurling of a rose bud to the pattern of a tortoise shell, the
sub-atomic to the galactic. A pure expression of number and form,
it is the language of creation and navigates the unseen dimensions
beyond our three-dimensional reality. Since its discovery, humans
have found many ways - stone circles, mandalas, labyrinths,
temples- to call upon this universal law as a way of raising
consciousness and communicating with a divine source. By becoming
aware of the dots and lines that build the world around you, Sacred
Geometry will teach you how to bring this mystical knowledge into
your daily practice.
This beautifully illustrated deck from the foremost empathy expert
is a sensitive person's toolbox for thriving in an overwhelming
world. For a sensitive person, the right support at the right
moment can make the difference between a day of feeling overwhelmed
and a day in which your precious gifts of sensitivity bring new
joys, insights, and ways to express your creativity. Now, Dr.
Judith Orloff offers a powerful and immediately accessible tool to
provide daily inspiration, guidance, meditative reflections, and
in-the-moment support whenever we need it with The Empath's
Empowerment Deck. "The special magic of these cards," she says, "is
that they provide instant guidance for any situation that you will
face." With her bestselling books and online teachings for empaths,
Dr. Orloff has emerged as a trailblazer for helping highly
sensitive people adapt and thrive in the modern world. In The
Empath's Empowerment Deck, she has created a resource for any
intuitive, caring person who wants to access the clarity of their
inner guidance to inform their relationships and life choices. For
empaths and sensitive people, consulting these cards will help
transport you from an overactive and stress-filled state of mind to
a place of serenity, where you can access your most heartfelt
goals, visions, and true destiny. Each of these lovingly-designed
cards is created to uplift and inspire, help you reconnect with
your intuition, enhance self-care, maintain healthy boundaries,
tune in to the natural world, and much more.
Following up on the successful Everything Is Wild and Free puzzle
and stationery set comes a new group of paper products from Flow
and the artist Valesca van Waveren. Taking as its inspiration a
quote from Francis Hodgson Burnett, and translating it into
stunning images that capture the magic we find in nature,
particularly on a starlit night, Everything Is Made Out of Magic is
a suite of pure delight. Lost in the digital rush is the
old-fashioned, truly mindful pleasure of writing a real letter--on
real stationery. The Everything Is Made Out of Magic Stationery Set
features a pad of 48 lined sheets, 32 cut-and-fold envelopes, and
53 adhesive seals and labels. Just add a fountain pen.
"Marlee's work shifts and stretches. This new collection is a
necessary resource for those of us looking to re-center, lean in,
and get curious about ourselves, about our heart's work. Getting to
Center is a blessing in book form." -Alexandra Elle, author of
After the Rain From the beloved creator, workshop facilitator, and
author of How to Not Always Be Working comes an approachable and
practical guide to leaning into the unknown even when it feels as
though everything around-and inside-us is in flux. Picking up where
How to Not Always Be Working left off, Getting to Center is an
empathetic offering to those who are looking for a roadmap for
finding their way back to equilibrium. This book meditates on
endings, grief and joy, ease, hope, addiction, and beginnings,
pairing Marlee's own experiences and wisdom with practical
exercises and tools for creating balance and understanding within
the natural changes of life. In her own constant shifting,
improviser and entrepreneur Marlee Grace has found ways to pivot
within her career, while still maintaining constant threads
throughout. She has developed practices that have supported her
through opening and closing multiple businesses, a divorce, several
cross-country moves, choosing sobriety, and more. Essential for
anyone who feels overwhelmed and anxious about these unpredictable
times, this gorgeous, thoughtful book is a hand to hold to feel
less alone, and a guide to cultivating resources we can replenish
and depend on in ourselves.
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